![]() The time-span covers the last week before the election in 2008, with long flashbacks to WWII and forward. ![]() But he also has problems, including vile barbs from the incumbent president and rival messiah, black-hearted Thornton Tomtree. Sloganeering about the nation’s Moral Imperative, O-Connell has grand plans for the rehabilitation of ruined mankind through racial harmony. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.” The Messiah here, a Jewish orphan adopted and raised by a Catholic family, is the great liberal Quinn Patrick O’Connell, now at 60 governor of Colorado and Democratic candidate for president. This time, it’s Man himself, of whom Emerson says, “Man is a god in ruins. ![]() Uris takes on a subject bigger than the Irish (Trinity, 1976, and Redemption, 1995), the Jews (Exodus, 1958, and Mitla Pass, 1988), or the Arabs (The Haj, 1984). ![]()
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